migrating server ips

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 06:22:09PM -0400, Teddy Mills wrote:
> Need to migrate a server from 1 IP to another.
> There are a number of hardcoded IPs.
>
> Is there a global search and replace function?
> or a utility say called like...ipr?
>
> ipr /etc -R 111.222.333 777.888.999
>
> recursivley replace this ip with that one starting at /etc
> I am sure this can easily be done.

But /etc could contain bind data, hosts file, nfs entries in fstab, etc.
Not everything is your IP address in there.

It does not sound like a safe thing to do.

perl -pi combined with find could certainly do it, but I wouldn't try.

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